23 Of Our Favorite Social Media Moments From SXSW 2016

SXSW 2016 was certainly one for the books, what with the President dropping by for tacos and such. We can safely say that it was one of the best festivals we’ve ever had. Crime was down by 50 percent over last year, no major accidents occurred, and almost everyone had a blast (save but for the SXSW Grinches among us).

While we wait for the real tale of the tape (I.E. the economic impact report, which won’t be out for a few months), let’s recap 10 of our favorite moments from this year’s festival…

23.) this welcome to Austin message

But, again, no need to move here. Thanks.

I asked a girl what her name was and she blew me a kiss and then asked me to get a smoothie with her. #keepAustinWeird

19.) The Empire vs APD

This Stormtrooper learned the hard way that we don’t take too kindly to clones-we’re all about the unique and weird in Austin. Unless that’s one of those newfangled, Episode VII TIE Fighters, in which case… Well, let’s hope he’s a traitor like our man Finn.

13.) craig robinson turns four seasons bar into karaoke lounge

This moment seemed to go down in history for not only best SXSW moment ever, but also best life moment ever. It’s good to see Horatio Belvetine, one of Robinson’s alter ego from “Brooklyn 99,” make it off of that cruise ship and onto the shores of Town Lake Lady Bird Lake.

8.) Drake still can’t dance

Once of Austin’s queens of social media, Bianca Flores (she runs all of those Transmission accounts we love so much), managed to get this footage of Drake on stage… Filming, uh… His new exercise DVD or something? Let’s go with that.

5.) The failed stagedive

Austin restaurateur CK Chin (Swift’s Attic, WuChow) had a LOT of fun tweeting during SX, putting together one of the best feeds of the week. His tweets included videos of shows, pics with music icons like Just Blaze, Steve Aoki, and retweets of shoutouts from Questlove, all from great on-stage locales that most of us can only dream of. We have to agree with him that of all the great videos he posted, this was the greatest SXSW video that he captured.